Chemical Scanner for Shopping

An Israeli inventor invented a tiny gadgets which allows a consumer to analyze the chemical composition of foods,drugs and other items.

The Gadgets called SCio an infrared spectrometer is being marketed for three applications-food,pharmaceuticals and horticulture,or the health of plants.Simply by pointing and clicking a miniature digital wand,users can see how many calories are in a piece of cheese or determine when a tomato will reach peak ripens.

SCio could have life saving uses such as identifying contaminated foods or determining whether a drug is counterfeit.

With the spectrometer, he said, you can just point the gadget at an item—without even necessarily knowing what it is. The device reads the item's molecular structure, matches the information to an ever-expanding database and then can send additional data to your smartphone.

Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2014-07-israeli-chemical-scanner.html#jCp

SCiO could have life-saving uses, such as identifying contaminated foods or determining whether a drug is counterfeit.

Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2014-07-israeli-chemical-scanner.html#jCp

Simply by pointing and clicking a miniature digital wand, users can see how many calories are in a piece of cheese or determine when a tomato will reach peak ripeness.

Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2014-07-israeli-chemical-scanner.html#jCp

s being marketed for three applications—food, pharmaceuticals and horticulture, or the health of plants. Simply by pointing and clicking a miniature digital wand, users can see how many calories are in a piece of cheese or determine when a tomato will reach peak ripeness.

Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2014-07-israeli-chemical-scanner.html#jCp

s being marketed for three applications—food, pharmaceuticals and horticulture, or the health of plants. Simply by pointing and clicking a miniature digital wand, users can see how many calories are in a piece of cheese or determine when a tomato will reach peak ripeness.

Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2014-07-israeli-chemical-scanner.html#jCp

s being marketed for three applications—food, pharmaceuticals and horticulture, or the health of plants. Simply by pointing and clicking a miniature digital wand, users can see how many calories are in a piece of cheese or determine when a tomato will reach peak ripeness.

Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2014-07-israeli-chemical-scanner.html#jCp

With the Spectometer a user can simply point the gadget on an item without even knowing anything about the device.The device reads the item molecular structure  matches the information to an ever expanding database and and then can send additional information to the usre's smartphone.